Hello, this is my first post. I have enjoyed the last week reading your's. The e-trac detector arrived a few hours ago, and to say the least I am relieved. I have been detecting for thirty-five years, and detecting weekly (if not daily) my home of 300 years for the last ten years when weather permitted. I have covered every inch many times, both with eight years of an explorer with both large and small coils, with whites xlt, and previous models of whites with a range of coils and low discriminating programs. I have found many colonial and pre-colonial coins dating to the 1600's during this time, but I was now down to square nails (they are everywhere!) and occasionally small portions of remaining shotgun casings as small as the primers themselves. I knew there was more, as I had recently backdragged a small area (4' by 5' with wife's permission!) with my front end loader to get to the oyster shell layer (where I found a button and a french colonial in terrible shape)
Anyway, I tested the new minelab tonight, over a small area which has resulted in absolutely no signals of non-ferrous metal before. It was (is ) raining out, so I bagged the detector and promised I'd spend only 15 minutes with it. The first signal was a deep tone which I thought may be lead, as I'd found many net weights on the property before from all periods. It was foil. The second signal was clear, slightly erratic, but nonetheless clear. I didn't bother to check the depth, as the baggies were obscuring the screen, but at about eight or nine inches I pulled up a humble 1918 wheat penny. This makes me ecstatic! It means that there is far more here that is now within reach, and at the level of the old oyster shells which have been so difficult to reach before! Hopefully if it doesn't rain tomorrow, I will be able to report something more interresting, (hopefully illusive slivered silver one of these days) but for right now, this humble penny has positively proved this machine's ability!
Anyway, I tested the new minelab tonight, over a small area which has resulted in absolutely no signals of non-ferrous metal before. It was (is ) raining out, so I bagged the detector and promised I'd spend only 15 minutes with it. The first signal was a deep tone which I thought may be lead, as I'd found many net weights on the property before from all periods. It was foil. The second signal was clear, slightly erratic, but nonetheless clear. I didn't bother to check the depth, as the baggies were obscuring the screen, but at about eight or nine inches I pulled up a humble 1918 wheat penny. This makes me ecstatic! It means that there is far more here that is now within reach, and at the level of the old oyster shells which have been so difficult to reach before! Hopefully if it doesn't rain tomorrow, I will be able to report something more interresting, (hopefully illusive slivered silver one of these days) but for right now, this humble penny has positively proved this machine's ability!
HH